Listening for the Still Joy

Listening for the Still Joy

Holiday logistics—the meals, the gifts, the travel, the getting everyone together and making sure they all have a good time of it all—can turn the most wonderful time of the year into the most stressful time of the year. All this effort for good holiday cheer, for joy. But isn’t there another kind of joy waiting for us just beneath the surface of the clamor? How might we live our lives listening to the call of the still joy already there, patiently awaiting our attention?